Nanoparticles loaded with pharmacologically active plant-derived natural products: Biomedical applications and toxicity

S Peng, Y Wang, Z Sun, L Zhao, Y Huang, X Fu… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmacologically active natural products have played a significant role in the history of
drug development. They have acted as sources of therapeutic drugs for various diseases …

Novel amphiphilic hydroxyethyl starch-based nanoparticles loading camptothecin exhibit high anticancer activity in HepG2 cells and zebrafish

L Wang, X Liu, C Zhang, X Chen, W Sheng, P Li… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Camptothecin is a naturally occurred anticancer drug but exhibits limitations including poor
aqueous solubility, low bioavailability, and high level of adverse drug reactions on normal …

Phyto-fabrication of ultrafine nanoscale holmium oxide HT-Ho 2 O 3 NPs and their biomedical potential

HEA Mohamed, AT Khalil, K Hkiri, M Ayaz, A Usman… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study holmium oxide nanoparticles (Ho2O3 NPs) are fabricated using Hyphaene
thebaica extracts as a bioreductant. The XRD pattern of HT-Ho2O3 NPs (product from phyto …

5-Fluorouracil-loaded designed praseodymium oxide–poly-β-cyclodextrin nanorods for effectively inhibiting breast cancer cells

V Manikantan, GS Varalakshmi, AS Pillai… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast cancer remains one of the commonly prevailing and challenging diseases.
Lanthanide-based nanomaterials are fascinating depending on their unique properties and …

Magnetic and luminescent neodymium-doped carbon dot–cyclodextrin polymer nanocomposite as an anticancer drug-carrier

A Alexander, AS Pillai, V Manikantan, GS Varalakshmi… - Materials Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, we report a neodymium-doped carbon dot composite with a poly-β-cyclodextrin. It
possesses wavelength-dependent photoluminescence characteristics. In addition, the …

Ho‐Ion‐Polymer/Graphene Heterojunctions Toward Room‐Temperature Ferromagnets

W Xia, C Li, S Zhang, X Wang, S Wang, Q Yang, W Li… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organic ferromagnetic materials offer great promise for spintronic devices, carbon‐based
chips, and quantum communications, but remain as a challenging issue due to their low …

Camptothecin-carrying cobalt-doped copper sulfide nanoparticles

AS Pillai, A Alexander, V Manikantan… - Journal of Cluster …, 2023 - Springer
Nanocarriers of anticancer drugs are delicately designed with precision addition at every
attempt. In this paper, we report CuCo2S4 nanoparticles that show light absorption in the …

Neodymium metal nanorods as camptothecin-carriers

A Alexander, AS Pillai, V Manikantan, GS Varalakshmi… - Materials Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal nanoparticles possess a single element, thus minimizing the complexity and toxicity. It
is fascinating to develop newer metal nanomaterials for such applications. We report, for the …

Lanthanum-doped carbon dots for anticancer drug transport

MJ Williams, SR Grace, V Manikantan, A Alexander… - Materials Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Herein, we report lanthanum-doped carbon dots for delivering the anticancer drug
camptothecin. The carbon dots are made as a nanocomposite with a β-cyclodextrin …

Designed ultrafine polymer-coated manganese-cobalt ferrite nanoparticles loaded with anticancer drug: efficacy enhancement through host: guest complexation on …

S Kumar, UA Tamboli, V Manikantan… - … Science, Part A, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Magnetic nanomaterials of different compositions have been examined, focusing on the
magnetic field-directed transport of drugs. The size, shape, surface modification and …